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About this book
Media Realities is an intellectual intervention into today's most urgent debates about truth, perception, and power.
Including essays by journalists, artists, philosophers, and theorists, this interdisciplinary volume exposes how mass media—old and new—shape not just what we know, but what we believe to be real. From Ukraine to China to Africa, from journalism to art to propaganda, this book asks: Who gets to define reality—and who gets left out?
Edited by scholars based in China, it challenges dominant Western portrayals of global politics and gives voice to perspectives too often dismissed or discredited. Contributions from the Global South, China, Germany, and beyond confront a simple truth: we don't all see the same world, and the media don't just reflect society—they perform it. Media Realities is not just a book about media. It is a book about reality itself—and how it is made, sold, and believed.
With contributors from across the fields of media, sociology, journalism, philosophy, political theory, and art, this volume will appeal to scholars and upper-level students with interests in the sociology of media and global political dynamics.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Media Realities
- 1 The West Is the East of the East
- 2 This Side of Good and Evil
- 3 The Cat of Borodyanka: An Attempt at the Media Real Symbol in War
- 4 Media and Reality: Luhmannian Perspectives on Identity, Objectivity and Truth
- 5 Ecological Communication Revisited: Unveiling the Role of Media in Luhmann’s Systems Theory
- 6 The End Game of Media Realities? Some Loosely Connected Considerations
- 7 From Opposition to Subversion: The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Lai’s Media Empire
- 8 China Different
- 9 “This Is China!”—The Story that Sells: The Politics of Rebranding National Images in the News Media
- 10 Western Media Unmasked: Biases, Perversions, Hypocrisies and Harm
- 11 East vs West Soft Power Tussles: Understanding the Co-Construction of Media Realities in Sino-African Relations
- 12 Shifting Realities in Development and Social Change Theories: The Role and Place of Media and Communication
- 13 “Return to Dust”: Harvesting Realism
- 14 “Solo Sunny”: A Story of Solitude
- 15 The Second Interrogation
- 16 A New “Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere”?: Seven Theses against the Widespread Assumption of an All-Powerful Internet
- 17 Concealment and Freedom: A Study of Youth Self-Empowerment through Pseudo-Anonymity in the Douban Momo Group
- 18 The Evolution and Logic of China’s Propaganda Model in a Global Context
- 19 Rethinking Chinese Propaganda: The Continuity of the Ancient Art of Governance
- 20 Reading the City: Linguistic Landscapes and Ideological Hegemony in Urban China
- 21 Cute Authoritarianism
- About the Authors
- About the Editors
- Editorial Notes
- Index